§ VISCOUNT MAHONasked the Secretary of State for War, What is the alternative provided for the Officers of the Commissariat, Store, Barrack, and Purveyors' Departments who may object to receive their new commissions under the Control Warrant; and whether, if they retired, they would be entitled to any sum or pension beyond the regulation allowance for the losses sustained by the introduction of the said Warrant, as was allowed to clerks of the War Office, &c., retired under recent changes?
§ SIR HENRY STORKSsaid, in reply, that officers of the Commissariat, Store, Barrack, and Purveyors' Departments, cannot object to receive commissions under the Control Warrant, but they may elect to retain the pay of their rank in their departments until they were promoted in the Control Department, and that officers who retired, except such as were displaced by amalgamations, would not be entitled to any sum or pension, and could be dealt with only under existing regulations.